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New York Times New York City Poll, January 2003 (ICPSR 3741)

Principal Investigator(s):The New York Times

Summary:

This special topic poll is part of a continuing series of
monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on the presidency and a
range of other political and social issues. The study was conducted in
part to assess respondents' opinions and concerns about the state of New
York City under the administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Residents
of the city were asked to give their opinions of Mayor Bloomberg and his
handling of education, crime, the budget, the economy, and overall
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This special topic poll is part of a continuing series of
monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on the presidency and a
range of other political and social issues. The study was conducted in
part to assess respondents' opinions and concerns about the state of New
York City under the administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Residents
of the city were asked to give their opinions of Mayor Bloomberg and his
handling of education, crime, the budget, the economy, and overall
quality of life issues in New York City, as well as their views on what
issue(s) should garner the most attention. Their opinions were also
sought on New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, including their
satisfaction with the quality of public schools in the city. A series
of questions addressed Bloomberg's plan to balance the budget. Questions
focused on respondents' views regarding the severity of the budget
problems, the cuts in services and tax increases already made, and
whether the fire and police departments should have been included in
those cuts. Respondents' opinions were sought on the progress made by
the Bloomberg administration in the following areas: improving
neighborhood public schools, keeping New York City safe from crime,
helping the city recover from the 2001 terrorist attacks, creating
affordable housing, and balancing the city's budget. Those polled
answered questions about their concern regarding another terrorist
attack in New York City and whether the city would be prepared, the
proposals for rebuilding at the World Trade Center site including their
preferred plan, the speed of the redevelopment of the site, and whether
Bloomberg or Governor George Pataki should have more influence.
Respondents were asked whether their encounters with panhandlers
bothered them, whether they had seen more homeless people and/or people
using/selling drugs in recent months, whether the city seemed cleaner or
dirtier than one year ago, and whether they approved of the new smoking
law banning smoking in almost all bars and restaurants in New York City.
Additional questions probed the seriousness of the following issues:
affordability and availability of housing, noise, unemployment, and
whether Blacks and Whites were treated fairly by the New York City
Police Department. Background information on respondents includes age,
gender, political party, political orientation, voter registration and
participation history, education, religion, marital status, employment
status, Hispanic descent, race, use of tobacco products, crime
victimization history, length of residence in New York City, borough of
residence, household income, children in household and whether they were
enrolled in public, private, or parochial school.

Dataset(s)

Study Description

Citation

The New York Times. New York Times New York City Poll, January 2003. ICPSR03741-v4. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2012-11-08. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03741.v4

Universe:
Adult population of New York City aged 18 and over
having a telephone at home.

Data Types:
survey data

Data Collection Notes:

This collection has not been processed by ICPSR
staff. ICPSR is distributing the data and documentation for this
collection in essentially the same form in which they were received.
When appropriate, documentation has been converted to Portable Document
Format (PDF), data files have been converted to non-platform-specific
formats, and variables have been recoded to ensure respondents'
anonymity.

The ASCII data file may have been replaced if the previous version was formatted with multiple records per case. A frequency file, which contains the authoritative column locations, has been added to the collection.

Methodology

Sample:
A variation of random-digit dialing using primary sampling
units (PSUs) was employed, consisting of blocks of 100 telephone numbers
identical through the eighth digit and stratified by geographic region,
area code, and size of place. Within households, respondents were
selected using a method developed by Leslie Kish and modified by Charles
Backstrom and Gerald Hursh (see Backstrom and Hursh, SURVEY RESEARCH.
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1963).

Time Method:
Cross-sectional

Data Source:

telephone interviews

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:2003-05-16

Version History:

2012-11-08 The previously released version of this study has been revised to include all 1003 cases found in the original data file.

2009-04-29 As part of an automated retrofit of some studies in the holdings, ICPSR updated the frequency file for this collection to include the original question text.

2009-04-22 As part of an automated retrofit of some studies in the holdings, ICPSR created the full data product suite for this collection. Note that the ASCII data file may have been replaced if the previous version was formatted with multiple records per case. A frequency file, which contains the authoritative column locations, has also been added.